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THE FRENCH STUD-BOOK. 
to form the basis of a correct register of the animals of pure 
blood, instead of having to search at random through the records 
of years long past, and in which no definite principle, no rational 
system was adopted. They wished for, they at length demanded, 
the formation of a Stud-book. Their prayer was granted, and 
the government, convinced of the utility of such a work, ap¬ 
pointed a commission to collect the materials, and to determine the 
right of inscription. Many events of a political nature, and 
which so frequently changed the character of the administration, 
long retarded the full accomplishment of the project; but, at 
length, the French Stud-book was completed. 
It consists of an octavo volume of about 500 pages, and costing 
seven francs, in which are inscribed the names of 215 stallions of 
pure English blood, imported into France, or born there; 266 
Arabs, Barbs, Persian or Turkish horses; 274 English mares also 
of pure blood ; and 41 Eastern mares. Their progeny is also 
traced so far as it was practicable. This beautiful and useful 
work will form an epoch in the equestrian annals of France. It 
is more complete than the German works of a similar character, 
which are confined to stallions and mares imported from England, 
and a continuation of the genealogies of the breeds most esteemed 
in Germany. 
In a late number of one of the French journals, after the long 
list of horses of pure blood, it is remarked that there is no 
portion of Continental Europe so rich in this division of national 
wealth. The English breeder, to whom so much of this is to be 
traced, may well be proud; but it may behove him to consider 
what may or will be the inevitable result, if the English horse, 
as many suppose to be the fact, is suffered to acquire a different 
and deteriorated character. 
The Estimation of the English Horse among the 
German Breeders. 
The English race-horse is as good as ever, or perhaps he is 
improved. 
“The hunter and the horse of general service is somewhat de¬ 
teriorated, because the English blood is not now refreshed by the 
noble oriental blood, and because they exact from their young 
horses labours to which their strength is not equal. They also 
supply their colts with too substantial nourishment, and which is 
more calculated to increase their height and bulk than to give 
them spirit and vigour. The present English breed ought to be 
occasionally crossed with the oriental one, that a race may be 
